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Brandon Sanderson / Alcatraz at school
« on: October 15, 2008, 09:15:50 PM »
I saw Alcatraz #1 in the Scholastic book order my kids bring home from school.  It was only $4.  It made me want to order it just to have one with the paperback cover too.  So thousands of school children will now be able to get a much better book than the majority of stuff in those catalogs.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Nice short Rothfuss Review
« on: October 15, 2008, 09:07:42 PM »
I saw this on the Amazon blogs yesterday, it made me laugh.  Patrick Rothfuss is an interesting fellow.

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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: October 09, 2008, 08:40:50 PM »
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Maybe you just haven't learned their deep names yet
Aaaah, that's my problem.
Just finished The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman.  I liked it more than I thought I would.  I felt disappointed that it was over so quickly.

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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: October 09, 2008, 06:34:43 PM »
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I think my favorite part may be the title and what it signifies - there's something intensely stirring about the idea of things obeying you and helping you if you know their names.
I think that idea would appeal to me more if I didn't have children. ;)

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Alcatraz 2 Up on Amazon!
« on: October 08, 2008, 03:18:34 AM »
OK then, where's mine?  My husband pre-ordered three books last week, Nation by Terry Pratchett, Alcatraz and HoA.  I was hoping to get Alcatraz before my birthday- Thurs- so maybe I have a chance.

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Everything Else / Re: FDA Recentley approves irradiation of spinach and lettuce
« on: October 06, 2008, 08:19:20 PM »
I think keeping people from getting food poisoning and farmers from losing their crops when we have a food scare is in everyone's best interest.
I wish somehow the general public could understand that irradiated food doesn't equal giants grasshoppers eating small towns.  The town I live in (Moab) is starting to experience a mining boom for uranium and there are all sorts of people up in arms about it, convinced that mining uranium is going to turn the entire area into a barren wasteland (oh, wait, it already is).
Of course, I studied physics in college and actually understand how it works, so I suppose puts me in the minority.

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Books / Re: First Line Game
« on: October 03, 2008, 05:56:52 PM »
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011:  When shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain?
Macbeth? It's been a long time.

13. This is the most beautiful place on earth.


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Rants and Stuff / Re: Revenge of Grumpy Bear
« on: October 01, 2008, 04:53:21 PM »
My husband is an audiologist (hearing guy).  If you have any questions you can send me a message.  Good luck.  Make sure you find someone you can work with and like.

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Books / Re: Children's Books Recommendations
« on: September 26, 2008, 06:06:28 PM »
Time to Pee is a great book.  My 3 yr old loves that book.  It gives her the opportunity to brag about how she is a big girl.

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Books / Re: First Line Game
« on: September 26, 2008, 06:03:42 PM »
Duh, How could I miss Hitchiker's guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
 and from Ookla's
U. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle (read it the other night, three times in a row)
S. Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll

So many of them sound familiar, like I should know them.  I could be I just read a lot so everything sounds familiar

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Books / Re: First Line Game
« on: September 26, 2008, 03:22:52 AM »
I have a horrible weakness for books.  It got worse when we moved to a small town with a limited library.
Here are some first lines from my collection.  Not all are sci-fi. Several are children's books, and one a play.

1. It was a nice day.

2. On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays it was Court Hand and Summulae Logicales, while the rest of the week it was the Organon, Repetition and Astrology.

3. Every one has heard people quarrelling.

4. Lessa woke, cold.

5. I see in Lunaya Pravda that Luna City Council has passed on first reading a bill to examine, license, inspect--and tax--public food vendors operating inside municipal pressure.

6. It was night again.

7. It was a dark and stormy night.

8. Captain First Rank Marko Ramius of the Soviet Navy was dressed for the Arctic conditions normal to the Northern Fleet submarine base at Polyarnyy.

9. Did you hear what I was playing, Lane?

10. No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; (I've truncated this sentence, it goes on for a paragraph)

11. "Where's Papa going with that ax?"

12. All children, except one, grow up.

Hints available as needed.  By the way, could we have hints for the original ones no one has gotten yet?

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Books / Re: First Line Game
« on: September 25, 2008, 09:32:11 PM »
By library I mean the four overstuffed bookshelves that my husband had to let me to put in the front room because I'm his wife and I would have stuck them in the bedroom if he had vetoed the front room thing.  I keep telling him I can rearrange the furniture so I can fit another one and he gives me dirty looks.  If I come home with one from a garage sale he'll just have to lump it.  The piano is in there too, but no TV. Also no couch, I think I'd like either a used chuch pew or a bunch of bean bags, but neither are in the budget right now.  I keep spending extra money on books.

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Books / Re: First Line Game
« on: September 24, 2008, 11:23:20 PM »
I know that one too, but I'll keep my trap shut.  My library is upstairs and the computer down, I'll post some tomorrow.

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Books / Re: First Line Game
« on: September 23, 2008, 07:25:21 PM »
I think this is this first time I actually knew more than half on these games.  Terry Pratchett's fansite does them sometimes and they always make me feel stupid.
1. Old Man's War, Scalzi
2. ?
3. Elantris, Sanderson
4. The Wheel of Time, Jordan
5. Citizen of the Galaxy, Heinlein
6. Princess Bride, Goldman
7.The Eyre Affair ? (one of the Tuesday Next books), Fforde
8. Sounds familiar but I can't quite remember
9 & 10. No idea.

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Books / Re: Best book you've ever read...
« on: September 19, 2008, 07:29:41 PM »
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I haven't read "Les Miserables"... I should...

I read the unabridged version one summer in a friend's hammock while everyone else was off working and I was taking a semester off.  It was the perfect way to read such a long, complex and good book.  I haven't tried anything so ambitious since because I moved away from the hammock and don't get summers off anymore :(

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